Standard Tickets Are Sold Out

The AI & Creativity Summit lands in New York next week, and standard tickets are now sold out. We built this program for people already past the obvious questions. Despite living and breathing these ideas day in and day out, the speaker prep calls have astounded our curatorial team. Again and again, the conversations move beyond the public AI discourse into more consequential territory.

In an early look at Chief AI Officer of Lionsgate, Kathleen Grace’s conversation with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of the Atlantic, they trace the next era of entertainment from the inside out: studio AI strategy, new production workflows across many tools, the future of filmmaking, and how audiences may discover, pay for, and experience stories as formats and devices change. And that is just one thread weaving through the broader tapestry of the day. With only a week to go, applications are open for the final remaining tickets.

Sponsor

With AI moving deeper into production across entertainment, media, and creative work, the infrastructure layer matters more than ever. That’s why we’re excited to welcome AWS to the sponsor lineup for our AI & Creativity Summit in NY. AWS provides the cloud, data, and AI infrastructure powering the next generation of media, entertainment, and creativity. With purpose-built services, pre-built solutions, deep industry expertise, and the largest community of industry-focused partners, AWS helps accelerate creative and enterprise teams to move from experimentation to production.

On the Agenda

Swimming With the Slop

Matt Zien's first AI film didn't go viral, it got him death threats instead. Since then, the cultural impact of AI has only become more polarized, especially in the space of arts and entertainment. In a live taping of Bloomberg's Everybody's Business, Max Chafkin interviews Matt on his 15-year TV journey that led to Midjourney, what the early reaction taught him about the field he stepped into, and the challenge facing creators who are simultaneously gauging audience appetite for AI storytelling and experimenting with the emerging medium.

The New Production Frontier

Professional creative production is undergoing its most fundamental shift - and even Hollywood, the industry with the most stringent requirements, is now embracing AI in ways that seemed unthinkable a year ago. A VFX veteran, an award-winning immersive studio, and the team behind one of the most widely adopted open-source AI video models explore what's actually changed: how AI capabilities have advanced from generative novelty to real frame-by-frame creative control, what open source unlocks that closed systems can't, and what it all means for everyone downstream - from film to advertising to brand storytelling and beyond. Featuring Tian Pei from LTX, Alex Henning from Magnopus, and Habib Zargarpour from USC.

Culture Shifters

The most interesting creative work today is being driven by cutting-edge creatives and category-defining platforms like OpenArt, who understand culture deeply enough to know what to build next, and move fast enough to define the format before anyone else arrives. A look inside the tools, the instincts, and work at the forefront of technology and culture, as well as an exploration of how AI is empowering creativity across advertising, music, film, and art. Featuring Coco Mao, CEO & Co-founder of OpenArt, Kristen Bender, SVP of Digital Innovation Strategy & BD at Universal Music Group, and Chris Neff, Global Chief AI Officer at Anomaly.

The Lighthouse

The AI & Creativity Summit brings this full day of programming to The Lighthouse Brooklyn. The Lighthouse is a campus for creators with connected spaces in Los Angeles and New York. Built for artists, founders, storytellers, and culture makers working across disciplines, the campuses are where ideas move from concept to execution. Shaped by a community that collaborates through shared studios and programming. Tour the Brooklyn campus.

Pulse

• Fabien Giraud at the Venice Biennale: Ahead of his appearance in the session “The Wild Machine” at our Summit in NY, artist Fabien Giraud is front and center in one of the most reputable shows at the Venice Biennale.

• Radiohead's Motion Picture House Opens Next Week in Brooklyn: The limited-run experience from a member of our community leads fans through a labyrinth of KID A and AMNESIAC art and sculpture before entering a custom screening room for KID A MNESIA, with a new soundtrack mixed from the original multitracks in 6-point spatial audio.

• Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features: Bloomberg reports that users will be able to select from multiple third-party AI models for tasks like generating and editing text and images, building on Apple’s strategy to turn their devices into a comprehensive AI platform.

If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at [email protected].

Til next time,

Artist and the Machine.

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